DRUGS team

  1. 2015
  2. Published

    Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance markers to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine among pregnant women receiving intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in Uganda

    Mbonye, A. K., Birungi, J., Yanow, S. K., Shokoples, S., Malamba, S., Alifrangis, Michael & Magnussen, Pascal, Sep 2015, In: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 59, 9, p. 5475-82 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Rapid clearance of schistosomal circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) after treatment shown by urine strip tests - importance for monitoring treatment efficacy and re-infection

    Kildemoes, A. M. O., Vennervald, Birgitte J, Kabatereine, N. B., Tukahebwa, E. M., Magnussen, Pascal, Wilson, S., de Dood, C. J., Deelder, A. M. & Dam, G. J. V., Sep 2015, In: Tropical Medicine & International Health. 20, Supplement 1, p. 52 1 p., O.3.2.17.001.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis and the co-distribution with schistosomiasis in Africa

    Braae, U. C., Saarnak, C., Mukaratirwa, S., Devleesschauwer, B., Magnussen, Pascal & Johansen, M. V., 12 Jun 2015, In: Parasites & Vectors. 8, 14 p., 323.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Schistosoma mansoni infection along the coast of Lake Victoria in Mwanza region, Tanzania

    Olsen, A., Kinung'hi, S. & Magnussen, Pascal, Jun 2015, In: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 92, 6, p. 1240-1244 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    The Vicious Worm - A One Health cysticercosis advocacy information tool

    Saarnak, C., Trevisan, C., Mejer, Helena, Braae, U. C., Magnussen, Pascal & Johansen, M. V., 17 Mar 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    The Vicious Worm

    Saarnak, C., Braae, U. C., Trevisan, C., Magnussen, Pascal, Mejer, Helena, Ertel, R. L., Johansen, M. V., Bramstedt, J. T. & Bodonyi, P., 13 Mar 2015

    Research output: Non-textual formComputer programmeEducationpeer-review

  8. Published

    'It puts life in us and we feel big': shifts in the local health care system during the introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria into drug shops in Uganda

    Hutchinson, E., Chandler, C., Clarke, S., Lal, S., Magnussen, Pascal, Kayendeke, M., Nabirye, C., Kizito, J. & Mbonye, A., 2015, In: Critical Public Health. 25, 1, p. 48-62 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    A cluster randomised trial introducing rapid diagnostic tests into registered drug shops in Uganda: Impact on appropriate treatment of malaria

    Mbonye, A. K., Magnussen, Pascal, Lal, S., Hansen, K. S., Cundill, B., Chandler, C. & Clarke, S. E., 2015, In: PLOS ONE. 10, 7, 21 p., e0129545.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    A non-inferiority, individually randomized trial of intermittent screening and treatment versus intermittent preventive treatment in the control of malaria in pregnancy

    Tagbor, H., Cairns, M., Bojang, K., Coulibaly, S. O., Kayentao, K., Williams, J., Abubakar, I., Akor, F., Mohammed, K., Bationo, R., Dabira, E., Soulama, A., Djimdé, M., Guirou, E., Awine, T., Quaye, S., Njie, F., Ordi, J., Doumbo, O., Hodgson, A. & 9 others, Oduro, A., Meshnick, S., Taylor, S., Magnussen, Pascal, Kuile, F. T., Woukeu, A., Milligan, P., Chandramohan, D. & Greenwood, B., 2015, In: PloS one. 10, 8, 17 p., e0132247.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Factors influencing transmission of porcine cysticercosis in Tanzania

    Braae, U. C., Wendy, H., Magnussen, Pascal, Lekule, F. & Johansen, M. V., 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Haplotypes of the endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) gene are not associated with severe malaria in Tanzania

    Hansson, Helle Smedegaard, Turner, Louise, Møller, L., Wang, Christian William, Minja, D., Gesase, S., Mmbando, B., Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, Theander, Thor Grundtvig, Lusingu, J. P. A., Alifrangis, Michael & Lavstsen, Thomas, 2015, In: Malaria Journal. 14, 9 p., 474.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Introducing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria into registered drug shops in Uganda: lessons learned and policy implications

    Mbonye, A. K., Clarke, S. E., Lal, S., Chandler, C. I., Hutchinson, E., Hansen, K. S. & Magnussen, Pascal, 2015, In: Malaria Journal. 14, 8 p., 448.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Kitchen waste as pig feed sustains transmission of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Mbeya, Tanzania

    Braae, U. C., Harrison, W., Lekule, F., Magnussen, Pascal & Johansen, M. V., 2015. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Polymorphisms in the Haem Oxygenase-1 promoter are not associated with severity of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Ghanaian children

    Hansson, Helle Smedegaard, Sørensen, L. M., Balle, C., Goka, B. Q., Luzon, E., Nkrumah, F. N., Schousboe, M. L., Rodrigues, O. P., Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, Kurtzhals, Jørgen, Alifrangis, Michael & Hempel, C., 2015, In: Malaria Journal. 14, 9 p., 153.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Potential Impact of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention on the Acquisition of Antibodies Against Glutamate-Rich Protein and Apical Membrane Antigen 1 in Children Living in Southern Senegal

    Ndiaye, M., Sylla, K., Sow, D., Tine, R., Faye, B., Ndiaye, J. L., Dieng, Y., Lo, A. C., Abiola, A., Cisse, B., Ndiaye, D., Theisen, Michael, Gaye, O. & Alifrangis, Michael, 2015, In: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 93, 4, p. 798-800 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Predictors of body composition changes during tuberculosis treatment in Mwanza, Tanzania

    PrayGod, G., Range, N., Faurholt-Jepsen, Daniel, Jeremiah, K., Faurholt-Jepsen, Maria , Aabye, M. G., Magnussen, Pascal, Changalucha, J., Andersen, A. B., Wells, J. C. K. & Friis, Henrik, 2015, In: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 69, 10, p. 1125-1132 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Re-assessing community-directed treatment: evidence from Mazabuka district, Zambia

    Halwindi, H., Magnussen, Pascal, Siziya, S., Meyrowitsch, Dan Wolf & Olsen, A., 2015, In: Journal of Biosocial Science. 47, 1, p. 28-44 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Referral from community health workers: evidence from cluster randomised trials of mRDTs in two areas of high and low malaria transmission in Uganda

    Lal, S., Ndyomugyenyi, R., Hansen, K. S., Magnussen, Pascal & Clarke, S. E., 2015, In: Tropical Medicine & International Health. 20, S1, p. 163-163 1 p., PST3.015.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Risks of hemolysis in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient infants exposed to chlorproguanil-dapsone, mefloquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as part of intermittent presumptive treatment of malaria in infants

    Poirot, E., Vittinghoff, E., Ishengoma, D., Alifrangis, Michael, Carneiro, I., Hashim, R., Baraka, V., Mosha, J., Gesase, S., Chandramohan, D. & Gosling, R., 2015, In: PloS one. 10, 11, 13 p., e0142414.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Sibling species of the Anopheles funestus group, and their infection with malaria and lymphatic filarial parasites, in archived and newly collected specimens from northeastern Tanzania

    Derua, Y. A., Alifrangis, Michael, Magesa, S. M., Kisinza, W. N. & Simonsen, P. E., 2015, In: Malaria Journal. 14, 8 p., 104.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    The impact of anthelmintic treatment intervention on malaria infection and anaemia in school and preschool children in Magu district, Tanzania: an open label randomised intervention trial

    Kinung'hi, S. M., Magnussen, Pascal, Kishamawe, C., Todd, J. & Vennervald, Birgitte J, 2015, In: B M C Infectious Diseases. 15, 10 p., 136.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. 2014
  24. Published

    Co-endemicity of Cysticercosis and Schistosomiasis in Africa - how many people are at risk?

    Saarnak, C., Braae, U. C., Magnussen, Pascal, Mukaratirwa, S. & Johansen, M. V., 4 Nov 2014. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Prevalence of lymphatic filariasis, malaria and soil transmitted helminthiasis in a community of Bardiya District, western Nepal

    Ranjitkar, S., Alifrangis, Michael, Adhikari, M., Olsen, A., Simonsen, P. E. & Meyrowitsch, Dan Wolf, Nov 2014, In: Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. 45, 6, p. 1243-1251 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Co-endemicity of Cysticercosis and Schistosomiasis in Africa - how many people are at risk?

    Saarnak, C., Braae, U. C., Mukaratirwa, S., Magnussen, Pascal & Johansen, M. V., 31 Oct 2014. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Global and local genetic diversity at two microsatellite loci in Plasmodium vivax parasites from Asia, Africa and South America

    Schousboe, M. L., Ranjitkar, S., Rajakaruna, R. S., Amerasinghe, P. H., Konradsen, Flemming, Morales, F., Ord, R., Pearce, R., Leslie, T., Rowland, M., Gadalla, N., Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, Alifrangis, Michael & Roper, C., 2 Oct 2014, In: Malaria Journal. 13, 1, p. 392

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Independent origin of Plasmodium falciparum antifolate super-resistance, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia

    Alifrangis, Michael, Nag, S., Schousboe, M. L., Ishengoma, D., Lusingu, J., Pota, H., Kavishe, R. A., Pearce, R., Ord, R., Lynch, C., Dejene, S., Cox, J., Rwakimari, J., Minja, D. T. R., Lemnge, M. M. & Roper, C., Aug 2014, In: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Print Edition). 20, 8, p. 1280-6 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    Molecular surveillance for artemisinin resistance in Africa

    Roper, C., Alifrangis, Michael, Ariey, F., Talisuna, A., Menard, D., Mercereau-Puijalon, O. & Ringwald, P., Aug 2014, In: The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 14, 8, p. 668-70 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Surveillance of artemether-lumefantrine associated Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance protein-1 gene polymorphisms in Tanzania

    Kavishe, R. A., Paulo, P., Kaaya, R. D., Kalinga, A., van Zwetselaar, M., Chilongola, J., Roper, C. & Alifrangis, Michael, 9 Jul 2014, In: Malaria Journal. 13, 1, p. 264

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Feasibility, safety and effectiveness of combining home based malaria management and seasonal malaria chemoprevention in children less than 10 years in Senegal: a cluster-randomised trial

    Tine, R. C. K., Ndour, C. T., Faye, B., Cairns, M., Sylla, K., Ndiaye, M., Ndiaye, J. L., Sow, D., Cisse, B., Magnussen, Pascal, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian & Gaye, O., Jan 2014, In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 108, 1, p. 13-21 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    A randomized trial of artesunate-amodiaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine in Ghanaian paediatric sickle cell and non-sickle cell disease patients with acute uncomplicated malaria

    Adjei, G. O., Goka, B. Q., Enweronu-Laryea, C. C., Rodrigues, O. P., Renner, L., Sulley, A. M., Alifrangis, Michael, Khalil, I. & Kurtzhals, Jørgen, 2014, In: Malaria Journal. 13, p. 369

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Guinea worm (Dracunculiasis) eradication: update on progress and endgame challenges

    Al-Awadi, A. R., Al-Kuhlani, A., Breman, J. G., Doumbo, O., Eberhard, M. L., Guiguemde, R. T., Magnussen, Pascal, Molyneux, D. H. & Nadim, A., 2014, In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 108, 5, p. 249-251 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Health facility-based data on women receiving sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy in Tanzania: lessons to learn from a cross-sectional survey in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts and other national survey reports

    Mubyazi, G. M., Byskov, J., Magnussen, Pascal, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, Ijumba, J. N., Marero, M., Mboera, L. E., Molteni, F. & Bloch, P., 2014, In: Reproductive Health. 11, 1, 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Introducing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria into drug shops in Uganda: design and implementation of a cluster randomized trial

    Mbonye, A. K., Magnussen, Pascal, Chandler, C. I., Hansen, K. S., Lal, S., Cundill, B., Lynch, C. A. & Clarke, S. E., 2014, In: Trials. 15, 12 p., 303.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Malaria and helminth co-infections in school and preschool children: a cross-sectional study in Magu District, North-Western Tanzania

    Kinung'hi, S. M., Magnussen, Pascal, Kaatano, G. M., Kishamawe, C. & Vennervald, Birgitte J, 2014, In: PLOS ONE. 9, 1, 8 p., e86510.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Parasite clearance following treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment in Burkina-Faso and Mali: 42-day in vivo follow-up study

    Coulibaly, S. O., Kayentao, K., Taylor, S., Guirou, E. A., Khairallah, C., Guindo, N., Djimde, M., Bationo, R., Soulama, A., Dabira, E., Barry, B., Niangaly, M., Diakite, H., Konate, S., Keita, M., Traore, B., Meshnick, S. R., Magnussen, Pascal, Doumbo, O. K. & Ter Kuile, F. O., 2014, In: Malaria Journal. 13, 1, p. 41

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Temporal fluctuations in the sero-prevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in pigs in Mbeya Region, Tanzania

    Braae, U. C., Magnussen, Pascal, Lekule, F., Harrison, W. & Johansen, M. V., 2014, In: Parasites & Vectors. 7, 7 p., 574.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    The Vicious Worm – a computer-based Taenia solium education tool

    Johansen, M. V., Trevisan, C., Braae, U. C., Magnussen, Pascal, Ertel, R. L., Mejer, H. & Saarnak, C., 2014, In: Trends in Parasitology. 30, 8, p. 372-374 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  40. 2013
  41. Published

    Genotyping Plasmodium vivax isolates from the 2011 outbreak in Greece

    Spanakos, G., Alifrangis, Michael, Schousboe, M. L., Patsoula, E., Tegos, N., Hansson, Helle Smedegaard, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, Vakalis, N. C., Tseroni, M., Kremastinou, J. & Hadjichristodoulou, C., 27 Dec 2013, In: Malaria Journal. 12, 1, p. 463

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Trends in chloroquine resistance marker, Pfcrt-K76T mutation ten years after chloroquine withdrawal in Tanzania

    Mohammed, A., Ndaro, A., Kalinga, A., Manjurano, A., Mosha, J. F., Mosha, D. F., van Zwetselaar, M., Koenderink, J. B., Mosha, F. W., Alifrangis, Michael, Reyburn, H., Roper, C. & Kavishe, R. A., 14 Nov 2013, In: Malaria Journal. 12, 1, p. 415

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  43. Published

    Human genetic polymorphisms in the Knops blood group are not associated with a protective advantage against Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Southern Ghana

    Hansson, Helle Smedegaard, Kurtzhals, Jørgen, Goka, B. Q., Rodriques, O. P., Nkrumah, F. N., Theander, Thor Grundtvig, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian & Alifrangis, Michael, 7 Nov 2013, In: Malaria Journal. 12, 1, p. 400

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Monitoring antifolate resistance in intermittent preventive therapy for malaria

    Venkatesan, M., Alifrangis, Michael, Roper, C. & Plowe, C. V., Oct 2013, In: Trends in Parasitology. 29, 10, p. 497-504 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  45. Published

    Declining burden of malaria over two decades in a rural community of Muheza district, north-eastern Tanzania

    Ishengoma, D. S., Mmbando, B. P., Segeja, M. D., Alifrangis, Michael, Lemnge, M. M. & Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, 22 Sep 2013, In: Malaria Journal. 12, 1, p. 338

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    A new strategy and its effect on adherence to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Uganda

    Mbonye, A. K., Yanow, S., Birungi, J. & Magnussen, Pascal, 21 Sep 2013, In: B M C Pregnancy and Childbirth. 13, 1, p. 178

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Assessment of the social burden of Taenia solium Cysticercosis in Angonia District, Mozambique

    Trevisan, C., Praet, N., Pondja, A., Assane, Y., Dorny, P., Magnussen, Pascal, Thamsborg, Stig Milan & Johansen, M. V., 18 Sep 2013. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Translating health research evidence into policy and practice in Uganda

    Mbonye, A. K. & Magnussen, Pascal, 5 Aug 2013, In: Malaria Journal. 12, 1, p. 274

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    Associations between maternal helminth and malaria infections in pregnancy, and clinical malaria in the offspring: a birth cohort in Entebbe, Uganda

    Ndibazza, J., Webb, E. L., Lule, S., Harriet, M., Akello, M., Oduru, G., Kizza, M., Akurut, H., Muhangi, L., Magnussen, Pascal, Vennervald, Birgitte J & Elliott, A., 31 Jul 2013, In: The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 208, p. 2007-2016

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    High rates of parasite recrudescence following intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy in Benin

    Moussiliou, A., Sissinto-Savi De Tove, Y., Doritchamou, J., Luty, A. J., Massougbodji, A., Alifrangis, Michael, Deloron, P. & Tuikue Ndam, N., 10 Jun 2013, In: Malaria Journal. 12, 1, p. 195

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  51. Published

    Selection of antimalarial drug resistance after intermittent preventive treatment of infants and children (IPTi/c) in Senegal

    Ndiaye, M., Tine, R., Faye, B., Ndiaye, J. L., Lo, A. C., Sylla, K., Abiola, A., Dieng, Y., Ndiaye, D., Hallett, R., Gaye, O. & Alifrangis, Michael, Jun 2013, In: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 88, 6, p. 1124-9 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  52. Published

    Rapid selection of Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter gene and multidrug resistance gene-1 haplotypes associated with past chloroquine and present artemether-lumefantrine use in Inhambane District, southern Mozambique

    Thomsen, T. T., Madsen, L. B., Hansson, Helle Smedegaard, Tomás, E. V. E., Charlwood, D., Bygbjerg, Ib Christian & Alifrangis, Michael, Mar 2013, In: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 88, 3, p. 536-41 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  53. Published

    Taenia solium cysticercosis - an emerging foodborne zoonosis in sub-Saharan Africa

    Johansen, M. V., Lekule , F., Pondja , A., Ngowi, H., Assane , Y., Kimbi, E., Magnussen, Pascal, Mejer, Helena, Braae, U. C., Trevisan, C., Saarnak, C. & Thamsborg, Stig Milan, 2013. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterResearch